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Security News for the Week Ending January 29, 2021

Adult Web Site Hacked; 2 Million Records Leaked Most visitors to adult web sites do not want to be “outed”, but that is exactly what happened to 2 million customers of MyFreeCams. While the data stolen (username, email, UNENCRYPTED passwords and account balance) is not that sensitive, the fact that someone has an account there […]

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Microsoft Teams – Hacker’s Choice

At the beginning of the pandemic (can you remember that far back), Teams had about 32 million daily users and was trying to compete with Slack. As of December, Teams had an estimated 115 million daily users. Teams is the defacto communications and collaboration app for anyone using Office or Microsoft 365. As of December, […]

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Security News for the Week Ending January 22, 2021

Parler Finds A New Home With Russian Hosting Provider in Belize “Hello world, is this thing on? With that message Parler’s website is back online. Well at least a one page website is back online. The site is being hosted by Russian-owned DDoS-Guard, a company that apparently also hosts ISIS web sites. Whether the folks […]

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How The Law Decrypts Your Phone’s Encryption

Law enforcement agencies around the world have been whining about the “going dark” problem at least since the early 1990s when they tried really hard to put Phil Zimmerman in jail for creating encryption that mere mortals could use. There is no question that bad folks use encryption to hide stuff, but good folks also […]

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